Shinji's Japanese class week 1

Pilot Evangelion unit-1

Welcome to Shinji Ikari’s Japanese class!! Ok, here we go! I am going to do these threads for people who want to learn Japanese reading, writing, and speaking. You can learn as much or as little as you want. I hope to make each lesson like this. Handwriting pictures, and voice clips from me will be posted sometimes so you can see and hear what I am writing and how things should sound. Taking notes will help as will LOTS of index cards!!

How to study:

I will only be using Hiragana to start. Hirigana is the first Japanese alphabet children learn in Japan. Here is a link to a good chart.

It has sounds too. You do not have to learn Hiragana to keep up, but some of you will, so I shall show you the way!! Each new word should be written on one side of an index card, and the English meaning on the other. Keep one or 2 cards in your pocket and pull it out throughout the course of the day. You will learn fast like this! It is what I do.

I will give 5 new hiragana every week fo rthose who want to learn them. I reccomend keeping a small notebook and write each symbol SLOWLY, fill a page with one symbol, repeating the sound every time you write it. You can easily memorise 5 hiragana each week like this! AND, you will know how to write some proper Japanese!!

Japanese is a great language. I will try not to overwhelm you with information but here are a few things you should keep in mind for the first week.......

1. Romanji (the regular letters I am typing with now) is not proper Japanese spelling.

2. Proper Japanese spelling uses Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.....each having a specific use

3. When conversing in Japanese, you always speak humbly, and be polite and as respectfull as possible. You always speak to/of others as if they were more important than you, and speak humbly of yourself.

4. There are no spaces in Japanese kana (kana will refer to Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana)